HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. - 2534 of 2025 Chief Justice's Court HON'BLE ARUN BHANSALI, CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE KSHITIJ SHAILENDRA, J. 1. This petition has been filed by the petitioner seeking a direction to the respondent authorities to take immediate action regarding construction/maintenance of the dilapidated and broken bridge of Ganga River located at Panchalghat, Farrukhabad. 2. Instructions have been produced by counsel appearing for respondent no.4 - U.P. State Bridge Corporation inter alia indicating that in District Farrukhabad, National Highway 730-C from kilometer 0.00 to 52.770 is under construction/widening. The bridge in question, which is part of the National Highway, its repairing is being undertaken by the Government of India and the National Highways Authority, and it has been indicated that the repair of the bridge will take about 29 days and for the purpose of ensuring that the bridge continues to be used for traffic, the District Collector has been approached for the purpose of ensuring stopping of one lane of the bridge alternatively. 3. The instructions and the letter sent to the District Collector are taken on record. 4. In view of the fact that the bridge in question is part of the National Highway and already its repair is underway and likely to be completed within a period of one month, we do not find any reason to entertain the petition at this stage. Versus Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Dharmendra Kumar Singh Counsel for Respondent(s) : A.S.G.I., C.S.C., Nagesh Kumar, Seema Agarwal (S.C.), Prateek Kumar Deepak Dwivedi .....Petitioner(s) Union of India and 3 others .....Respondent(s) 5. Consequently, the petition stands disposed of. 6. It is expected of the respondent authorities to ensure that repair of the bridge takes place with expedition and with minimum inconvenience to the commuters. September 1, 2025 AHA/AKShukla WPIL No. 2534 of 2025 2 (Kshitij Shailendra, J.) (Arun Bhansali, CJ.) Digitally signed by :- AFZAL HUSAIN ABBASI High Court of Judicature at Allahabad